Web Zeitgeist

An anonymous reader writes "CNN has a story about Lycos and its 50 top "searched for" items of the year. After excluding "sex", "Dragonball" was #1, followed by "Kazaa", "tattoos", "Britney Spears", and the "NFL" (american football) rounding out the top 5. IRS was #7, and taxes acheived #14. "The Bible" is #21 followed by "Marijuana" at #22. It appears that pop-stars, supermodels, computer games, sports, and september 11th related words heavily dominate the rest of the top 100. How about the biggest declines? Boy bands. nSync down from 36 to 163, and Back Street Boys tumble to 250 from 58. Lycos is hosting the top 100 results this year here with some commentary. Google also has their own comprehensive lists (and cool charts) as well."

Comments

Hurry! We can still influence the 2002 results!

[dagg]

Let's vote for a word or phrase and try to get it added to the 2002 results. I vote for: this.

If all goes well... we should see something like this:

December 15th, 2002: slashdot user calls on the world to search for the word insert word here so as to manipulate the 2002 Zeitgeist results

Completely incomplete without porn.

[NineNine]

I hate to say it, but this is completely useless since they stripped out anything objectionable. I didn't see porn or sex or anything relating to sex on there at all. This is like the "sanitized for TV" version of the stats, which in my mind, aren't really stats at all.

Re:What google neglected to mention...

[jfedor]

BTW, this is offtopic, but Mr. Malda recently mentioned in a Journal comment that Slashdot has too many "+5, Funny" comments. I agree with this sentiment,

Why don't you just set the Reason Modifier in your preferences accordingly.

Oh, I know. You'd have to log in to do that.

-jfedor